Michael Cunningham Quotes

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

No one should be forced to not dream anymore.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!